Mr Sang-Won Lee is an associate at Shin & Kim and his main areas of practice include criminal (investigation response, litigation), corporate compliance (anti-corruption) advice, and broadcasting and communications advice.

Since joining Shin & Kim in 2019, attorney Sang-won Lee has accumulated extensive experience in responding to major criminal investigations and trials against companies and individuals, and has consulted on compliance (anti-corruption) issues arising from domestic and foreign companies in various industries. Prior to joining Shin & Kim, he was in charge of deliberation on trademark infringement, portrait infringement, defamation, and personal information dissemination on the internet at the Korea Communications Standards Commission (KCCI), and advised and represented in lawsuits in various civil/criminal, administrative, and financial cases at Dongin Law Firm.

• Violation of the Act on the Aggravated Punishment, etc. of Specific Economic Crimes (Embezzlement, Breach of Trust) by the heads and management of large domestic companies.
• Cases concerning consultation and filing of complaints on disputes related to domestic investments by large domestic media groups.
• Case of violation of the Automobile Management Act by a global automobile company.
• Cases of domestic pharmaceutical companies violating the Pharmaceutical Affairs Act and the Foreign Exchange Transactions Act.
• Response to investigation of case related to domestic shipment approval of domestic pharmaceutical companies.
• Response to investigations related to fraud by representatives of virtual asset issuers (acquittal).
• Violation of the Unfair Competition Prevention Act related to trade secrets in the IT industry.
• Violation of the Subsidy Management Act by the representative of a renewable energy company (acquittal confirmed).
• Response to investigation of case of violation of the Attorney-at-Law Act by the representative of a renewable energy-related institution (acquittal).
• Response to investigation of a medical practitioner’s violation of the Medical Service Act (also known as “office manager hospital”) (acquittal).
• Response to case investigation by the Prosecutor’s Past History Committee (acquittal).
• Case of violation of the Price Stabilization Act by mask distributors (acquittal).
• Defamation, sexual crimes, and narcotics incidents in the entertainment and gaming industries.
• Advice on internal control and internal investigation of domestic and foreign companies.
• Cases involving National Assembly Members’ violation of election laws, etc.